Qingjiang County (now Zhangshu City, Jiangxi) is located in the southern edge of the Ganzhong Plain, is in the Ganjiang River waterway and the north-south highway of the key point, the south of the Qingjiang River is the mountain and hilly area that stretches endlessly, in history Qingjiang has been the Central Plains region leading to the Lingnan car boat hole, also used to be one of the four ancient towns in Jiangxi, has always been famous for the complete and precious medicinal materials, so there is also a "southern medicine capital" title.

At night, on the Wangjin Tower, a large wharf on the verge of the wide Ganjiang River, Fan Shisheng, the commander of the 16th Army, looked at the fishing fire in the west of the river, and it was difficult to calm his heart, and Xu Zhirui, a general under Zhang Fakui, led more than 30,000 people from the first division of the Fourth Army and the Eleventh Army who stayed for a day and a half to leave the county and go south, although Fan Shisheng and Zhang Fakui have known each other for a long time, but they have never had deep friendships with each other, and only one division of more than 8,000 garrisons remained by Fan Shisheng saw Xu Zhirui and other fierce generals leading the army to come, and he was indeed trembling. I really pinched a cold sweat.

Ye Tingbu of the Eleventh Army and He Long of the Twentieth Army surged down from Nanchang, all the way like a bamboo, these two rebel heroes who participated in the Northern Expedition and experienced a hundred battles were the red bandits that Fan Shisheng was ordered to contain, but he Fan Shisheng led the soldiers who had not fought for more than 20,000 years, where did he dare to be bored?

All the way north from Shaoguan, Fan Shisheng took the troops to carefully turn around, avoid its edge, and He Longbu passed by, and finally arrived at Qingjiang, Fengcheng and Xingan to camp on the front line, and learned that Chen Shuming's division of the Eleventh Army, which followed Ye Ting's rebellion last week, had parted ways with Ye Ting, and led his troops from Fuzhou to Fujian, and went to Jiang Guangding, the old commander who had served in Fujian when the Ninghan split was divided. Chen Shuming and others disarmed all the new troops of Tan Shuqing stationed in Fujian and immediately dismissed them, which immediately frightened Fan Shisheng to sleep and eat restlessly, Chen Shuming, Jiang Guangding and others even dared to disarm the descendants of He Yingqin who were like Zhongtian in Fujian, not to mention that he Fan Shisheng, a local army that did not belong to any group?

Fan Shisheng was secretly screaming for luck in emotion, Zhang Fakui's troops suddenly went south into the garrison area, and there were more than 30,000 people, how could he not let Fan Shisheng, who was unprepared and scattered, send chills down his spine? Finally, the army of tigers and wolves was finally sent away, and the emergency military order from Wuhan came again:

Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi ordered Fan Shisheng's 16th Army to immediately go west to the front line of Anfu and Ji'an, and together with the new 13th Army of Wuhan Political Axe, encircled and suppressed the Red Army on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders, which was becoming more and more happy!

Fan Shisheng, who had just been stationed on the front line of Qingjiang and Fengcheng for a few days, was really unwilling to go to the Red Army, and this military commander, who had led his troops from Yunnan to Guangdong and stationed in Guangdong for five years, was thin and thin, with bulging cheekbones, and two mustaches that were much more beautiful than his eyebrows.

"Youqin, what do you think of Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao's urgent telegram?"

Li Zhuzhong, who was polite and wrote beautiful calligraphy, replied helplessly: "It is really difficult to choose, if our army continues to stay here, it will not only offend Wang and Tang, but also offend Li Renchao (Li Jishen) in Guangzhou, Ren Gong is already very dissatisfied with our army in the face of Ye and He's armies avoiding war, if we offend Wang and Tang again, I am afraid that Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces will have no place for our army, so our army needs to make a choice no matter what, otherwise the future is worrying!"

The commander of the Ninth Army of the previous Guizhou Army was strangled to death by Tang Mengxiao, and the whole army was immediately divided; At the beginning of this month, Wang Tianpei's 10th Army was divided in half in the blink of an eye, and Wang Tianpei himself was shot by Commander-in-Chief Chiang to vent his anger; Half a month ago, the 15th Army, which had made the greatest contribution to the capture of Wuhan, was suddenly disarmed and dismissed by Tang Mengxiao, and the army commander Liu Zuolong also ended up being shot, and the soldiers under his command were quickly divided up by Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng; Tan Shuqing, who was stationed in Fujian a few days ago, was disarmed in a blink of an eye, and the army commander fled in embarrassment. ”

Fan Shichang sighed: "It seems that I can't hide if I want to hide this time, and in this extraordinary period, I can't protect myself anymore!" Anyway, I will send a telegram to Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao later, saying that our army will act according to orders and advance to the front line of Anfu and Ji'an tomorrow, alas......"

"The military seat, we must go, but we can go slowly, or secretly send familiar people to the Red Army to secretly contact first, maybe we can avoid the useless consumption of the soldiers, and the generosity and righteousness of the military seat are well known." Li Zhuzhong suggested tactfully.

Fan Shisheng nodded heavily: "It's feasible, just do it, Youqin will work harder!" ”

"Yes!"

Fan Shisheng's wishful thinking finally failed to go as planned, in this special period of non-friend or enemy, sometimes enemy and sometimes friend, the grim situation and the cruel living environment, there is no room to sway left and right, and a sudden chaotic war is about to shatter his dream.

At three o'clock in the morning, an elite detachment composed of 65 people quietly appeared in the backyard of the Deng family manor in Laohushan, 21 kilometers southeast of Fengcheng.

The leader of the nursing home on duty at night heard that something was wrong with the movement of the vicious dogs, and immediately walked out of the small room, and before he could see what was going on with the two vicious dogs that fell to the ground, a sharp arrow broke through the air, pierced through the back of his head from the center of his eyebrows, and the leader died before he could scream.

A dark shadow flew in and pulled out the sharp arrow from his head, and dozens of agile men scattered into their respective target areas.

Half an hour later, dozens of members of the Deng family, the overlord of the party with a family of millions and the two best tungsten mines in the county, were knocked unconscious in their sleep, and the gold and silver treasures and title deed books worth more than 2 million yuan were looted, and the largest private armed force in the county, equipped with six light machine guns, more than 400 German-made rifles and shell guns, was unknowingly killed more than 10 people, and only one group member who got up to pee was stabbed in the chest and abdomen and scammed to death.

By the time all the robbers had gone, the coward stumbled out of the hut and howled loudly, and by the time the army had rushed from the two mines at the foot of the mountain, the robbers had already fled.

Uncle Deng, who was woken up by the cold water, was heartbroken and angry, and he clearly saw the military uniform on the robber and the opium cigarette barrel behind him, just like the nursing group who was stabbed in the chest and abdomen and dying, and a fierce revenge immediately began.

Almost at the same time, Shangzhuang, twelve kilometers northwest of Fengcheng, also had a shocking looting and burning, more than 100 officers and soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Dian army and their faces covered with pot ashes openly attacked the compound of the richest man in the town, killing and wounding more than 70 people in the courtyard, robbing the gold, silver and jewelry worth millions, and before fleeing, he actually set fire to the stable and backyard of the Shang family.

The old man of the Shang family and his two sons, who were injured and lying on the ground, looked at the ruined home and the corpse of a nursing home, slumped on the ground, beat their chests and lungs and cried bitterly.

The eldest young master of the Shang family, who was full of anger, didn't say a word, and immediately gathered more than 300 regiments, brought all the machine guns, long and short guns, and slaughtered towards Fengcheng with great momentum.

At five o'clock in the morning, Zeng Yuewei, the commander of the 47th Division of the 16th Army of Fan Shisheng, who was stationed in Fengcheng County, was still asleep, and was suddenly awakened by the earth-shattering gunfire and angry shouts from the south of the city.

"Our regiment was suddenly attacked by more than 500 local militia members, the brothers were unprepared, and suffered heavy losses, these militia groups stabbed the sentries to death, shouted revenge and hatred and rushed into the barracks fearlessly, killed people when they saw them, set fires everywhere, and their subordinates had to order the brothers to shoot in self-defense, it seemed that they were the men and horses of the Deng family militia group."

Zeng Yuewei was furious: "Kill Lao Tzu!" This group of natives has not given a good face since the arrival of our army, relying on the fact that the local snake has a few stinky money, often obstructing military affairs and despising our officers and soldiers. If no one remains, Lao Tzu immediately transferred the second regiment in the north of the city, killed Dengjiazhuang in one go, and killed all of them for me! ”

"It's been a long time since the subordinate and other divisions were seated!" The bearded regimental commander flew on his horse and galloped away.

Zeng Yuewei's herald had just ridden his horse into the barracks at the east ferry in the north of the city, when he suddenly heard the dense gunfire and shouts of killing, and the herald was taken aback, turned his horse's head and hurried back to report.

Zeng Yuewei was also taken aback when he saw that the local militia actually launched a north-south flank attack to coordinate with each other, and immediately ordered a regiment stationed in the station to quickly reinforce the south of the city, and personally led the division headquarters guard battalion and machine gun company to rush to the north of the city.

As the sky gradually brightened and the exchange of fire lasted for a long time, the local militia was the opponent of the 6,000 army, and the Yunnan army, which was outnumbered, annihilated most of the rabble militia with only one charge, and pursued the victory in anger, smashing the tiger's den, and the Shang family compound and the Deng family manor could no longer escape the killing and looting of the angry Dian army.

However, the mutation, which originally only happened in Fengcheng, instantly turned into a huge conflict that no one expected: at dawn, a backward company of the 11th Army, which had been camped in Dongcun, seven kilometers north of Qingjiang County, was suddenly attacked by dozens of officers and men of the Yunnan Army, more than 90 officers and men, including the company commander, were killed in their sleep, machine guns and rifles were snatched up, and more than 20 officers and men who escaped rushed to the south to chase the main force to call the police. No one dared to enter Qingjiang County, where Fan Shisheng's military headquarters was located.

Just after seven o'clock in the morning, Fan Shisheng, who had received an urgent report from Chengbei and Fengcheng, was suddenly stupid, and on the one hand, he urgently ordered Xu Kexiang, who was stationed in Xingan County in the south, to lead the 48th Division under his command to immediately march westward to avoid misunderstanding, and on the other hand, he sent his generals and colonels to Xu Zhirui's troops to explain in detail.

At 10:40 a.m., Xu Kexiang, who had just walked 10 kilometers to the west, was taken aback when he heard the alarm from the rear team, and Xu Zhirui, who was full of anger, had already caught up with Xu Zhirui, acting deputy commander of the 11th Army and commander of the 26th Division, and without saying a word, immediately launched a fierce attack, and Xu Kexiang, who was unprepared, led more than 5,000 soldiers under his command to run 10 kilometers westward, escaping Baizhang Peak to get rid of Xu Zhirui's pursuit of thousands of angry men, but leaving hundreds of corpses behind him.

Xu Zhirui saw that he couldn't catch up, and his anger subsided, only to find that he had been more than 30 kilometers away from the large army, and immediately returned to the division of Xingan to join the main force, while sending an urgent telegram to Zhang Fakui, who was still in Lushan, asking for instructions, and on the other hand, gathering troops, ready to fight against Fan Shisheng's troops at any time.

The initiator of all this was Gu Changfeng, who led his soldiers to attack Shangzhuang, and on the way to make a false detour to the south, he occasionally encountered the last company of the 11th Army camped in Dongcun, and decided to burn the fire a little more vigorously, so that Fan Shisheng could leave Qingjiang and Fengcheng faster.

At this time, Gu Changfeng didn't expect that Fan Shisheng had decided to slowly drive westward, and he didn't know that the commander of the 48th Division stationed in Xingan was Xu Kexiang, the initiator of the "Ma Yue Incident".

The reason why Xu Kexiang, who was angrily chased and killed by Xu Zhirui, became Fan Shisheng's subordinates was because Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi were forced by public opinion to arrest Xu Kexiang, who launched the "Ma Yue Incident" to kill [***], and to calm the hearts of [***] and the Third International, so as to continue to gain support.

(To be continued)